After some investigations i found out how to open the idn stream with windows media player and so i am able to talk about my development:
a vista sidebar gadget which features a idn player with optional songinfo (if idn staff is going to allow this...)
the only negative aspect for now is that you will have to install a codec plugin for media player once...
if nothing bad happens the gadget will be useable at the end of this week (is still some artwork and code improvement to do...)

is anyone interested in listening to idn via sidebar gadget?

p.s.: i have to recheck if listening via corporate proxies is possible...

@ellen or other idn-staff running windows vista:
who wants to test my gadget when i'm finished?

EDIT: if ellen is going to share the infos about song request and/or chat functions i can try to add these functions to the gadget too...

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McWaustSpecial Member

Joined: 25 Feb 2005Posts: 2671Location: Denmark

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:38 amPost subject:

Sounds really interesting, Setchi!!

EllenFounder/Owner

Joined: 07 Dec 2005Posts: 1281

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:32 pmPost subject:

Sounds great setchi! there were some ideas of making it before but i dont had time so it is wonderful that you are making it now ofcourse you can pm me for any questions about testing or for info to build in any (extra) features

thanks for your help and good luck

setchiAdvanced Member

Gender: Joined: 12 Feb 2006Posts: 33Location: Hall in Tirol

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:00 pmPost subject:

thank you for your feedback

today i found out the sources for the idn messenger's data (playing info, playlist, requesting) with some special tools (sorry ellen *gg*)
i decided to implement additional functions in a later version, because the parsing of the data is a little too complex for integrating into my gadget at the moment...

Use the info icon in the upper left corner for songinfo
Volume change is done with mouse scroll, muting with click on the speaker icon
World Icon brings you to the IDN-Website

IMPORTANT:
You MUST install the Orbis plugin to listen, because the Windows Media Player, which is used in background does not support the compression of IDN-stream by default.
Please open settings for details (wrench icon on the right side)

EDIT: Supports M$ Vista Sidebar only at the moment. You can send me links to other sidebars, maybe i can adapt it for these sidebars too if i have time